What does ACS stand for?

One of the first projects announced by Customs was the development of a system to replace the Automated Commercial System (ACS), a paper-based and transaction-oriented processing system that many NONWOVENS INDUSTRY readers have likely encountered at one time or another.

before the food arrives at the port of entry: Importers, in most circumstances, are able to provide the required information to FDA using CBP's Automated Commercial System.

The Customs Bureau and FDA have been looking at ways to modify Customs' Automated Commercial System to make compliance with the new law easier.

Customs system (the Automated Broker Interface of the Automated Commercial System, or ABI / ACS); * The proposed limitation to allow only the importer or their agent to file prior notice has been modified to allow "any person with knowledge of the required information" to submit the prior notice; and * The specific timeframes in which prior notice is required have been significantly modified, such that notice is required two hours in advance of imports via land; 4 hours in advance of imports via rail or air; eight hours in advance of imports via water and prior to mailing for any goods imported by mail.

Prior notice must be made electronically, either through FDA's Prior Notice (PN) System Interface, or through the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Automated Broker Interface of the Automated Commercial System (ABI/ACS).

From Customs' perspective, CF's participation in the electronic in-bond network is the first and very progressive step forward by a motor carrier to use the capabilities that are available to the trade community in the automated commercial systems of the U.